This week saw the swine flu which struck me down, hit a colleague. He was on the road to recovery, and was looking like he would return to work soon, but he said he felt ill again all of a sudden on Friday morning and could not make it in. Statistics...

After more than ten years devoted to video games and the people who make them, Joystiq is closing its doors. We won't be reporting on the best games of 2015, so join us for one last hurrah as the Joystiq family reveals their Games of a Lifetime. Hun...

The Ultimate Action Triple Pack and Ultimate Stealth Triple Pack from Square Enix will launch for Xbox 360 and PS3 in North America on March 31, a spokesperson confirmed to Joystiq today. The Ultimate Action Triple Pack includes Tomb Raider, Sleeping...

In Life is Strange you don't need a Cher button to turn back time. The $5 first episode of the teen drama is available now on Steam, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and it's on the way to PS4 and PS3 later today. For more on Dontnod's new joint, make some time f...

Yes, this Conan O'Brien "Clueless Gamer" bit features Mortal Kombat X (which, by the by, Ermac was just confirmed for). More importantly, we now know that sportsballer-of-few-words Marshawn Lynch likes to play Toad in Mario Kart, while Rob Gronkowski...

Hoping to both stress test its servers and drum up an extra bit of pre-release hype, publisher EA has announced plans for a five-day beta test of its imminent cops versus robbers shooter Battlefield Hardline scheduled to begin on February 3. "There's...

Heartstrings-tugger Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is one of three Games with Gold freebies for Xbox Live Gold subscribers next month. On Xbox 360 you can grab the Joystiq Top 10 of 2013 puzzle-platformer for zero centage between February 1-14. Then, a...

Rare Replay is a collection of 30 retro games to celebrate the 30th year of beloved British game developer Rare, the studio behind Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata and Banjo Kazooie. If you dig into the Rare Replay bundle on Xbox One you will also find Rare...

Heavy Armor might be the perfect Kinect game, or at least, the most honest, because it reveals how interesting life can be when technology gets in your way. Green-lighted way back when Kinect was known as Project Natal, the game posits a near-future ...

Among the most ambitious 'free to play' titles available today, World of Tanks gets a visual overhaul on Xbox One that few expected. It's unique for being the only game on Microsoft's box to have cross-platform play with its older Xbox 360 release - ...

Re-Logic's 2D sandbox hit Terraria is heading to 3DS and Wii U in Q1 2016, publisher 505 Games has announced.Both versions will feature touchscreen controls with online and offline multiplayer. The Wii U version will support up to eight-player multip...

How's your Gamescore getting along? Nearly 10 years on from the launch of Xbox 360, Microsoft's gaming awards system has now passed the 100,000 available achievements mark.3100 titles have now launched with achievements, with a total of 2,300,227 Gam...

You will soon be able to play as Iron Man in Grand Theft Auto 5. Well, in the PC version, at least.The Avenger-adding mod is the work of Brazilian coder JulioNB, who previously added the superhero into GTA4.Iron Man flies, hovers, punches cars, fires...

Another week out the way as we charge through the year. Things are moving quickly with Gamescom just around the corner and of course all those shmexy games coming out towards the end of the year. Get your wallets ready! Recapping this week we had a f...

The Endless series of strategy games has become my go to for 4X lately and seeing a fourth entry on the way makes me pretty excited. Set in the same universe as the previous releases, the previous games all slowly converged on the same lore as you p...

Welcome to Dave’s Bathtub Time Machine! Every week Dave will take you on an adventure back in time where graphics were horrible and save files and checkpoints were missing. His first quest ties in with a revival of a classic that’s just...

When you’re asked what your favourite console is of all time you’d expect the team to have various answers to that question. Well, as it happened it was a very one-sided affair. There was only one console that really came out victorious a...